Fernley Nugget

This is a solid casino amongst the few serving the denizens of Fernley. The place is clean and offers up some fun slot games that keep me entertained if I am winning of course. Some of my favorites there offer up good payouts but like any casino game, player beware!
The staff is nice and accommodating making their rounds frequently. I’m also happy they have a Black Bear Diner attached, my kind of place!

I love playing at your casino. I do well. Thanks for a fun time… Tony is always so nice and makes you feel welcome and your poker dealers are the greatest. Thanks Eva and Charley. :)

We saw an eagle, hawks aplenty including a peregrine falcon, a few antelope and hundreds of songbirds as we made the drive on the bucolic byways and back roads from Bend OR to Fallon NV. We saw mountains and prairies and marshes and rivers and huge lakes and magnificent canyons and farms and ranches including a big goat farm that make me yearn to go pet the critters. But in the last five of the nearly eight hour drive we saw not one bathroom. Not one.
Maybe we could have braved going into the Nixon Store in woefully sad Nixon NV right outside the destitute and nearly deserted Pyramid Lake Reservation. But the big cinder block building without windows seemed too much of a gamble to go in and ask.
So imagine how delighted we were to enter Fernley and see this little Nugget Casino with the friendly exterior that even had a sign for their neighbor in the building, Black Bear Diner, and full sized carvings of wood bears sitting at a picnic table. We pulled right over and in we went.
We found a nearly new casino and here’s the important part for us — large, sparkling clean bathrooms. If you’re driving through and need to make a pit stop, highly recommend the Nugget.
Not to mention the very friendly folks who worked there and said hello as we helped ourselves to a cup of their freshly brewed and free coffee poured into a big ceramic mug that we sipped as we donated $ 5 to their cause by playing video poker at one of the many gaming machines. Machines only, no tables here.
This is a more subdued atmosphere casino, we mean that in a positive way, and the folks there seemed largely locals and larger older. Then again, it was only about 4:30.
We looked inside the Black Bear which was true to the nature of this small chain of restaurants — homey, sparkling clean, friendly greeter and pie displayed prominently in the glass goodie case at the entry. Pie seems the perfect vacation «fuel» to me but we were on our way without testing it out here. But you can do a lot worse for food in unknown places than a Black Bear Diner.
EQUAL ACCESS (accessibility) NOTE: perfectly accessible from parking through every space in the place. Universal access design gotten right. My Unilocal friends and others who rely on wheelchair access will want to know that.
A smoking note: non allowed here and my friends who are smokers will want to know that.
Bottom line is we’d recommend this little place for a quick stop or a longer stop.